PELHAM - The site plan for a proposed townhouse development on the village's border with New Rochelle is nearing approval despite significant backlash from neighbors.

The village Board of Trustees is considering the proposal for a five-unit townhouse development at 185 Lincoln Ave., which sits directly along Pelham's eastern border. The developer, Lincoln Pelham Partners, LLC, has made different proposals to the village dating back to at least 2012.

But each proposal has received pushback from nearby residents — mostly in the neighboring Glenwood Lake neighborhood in New Rochelle — citing traffic concerns, environmental impact, aesthetics and construction noise.

"It is our argument that this could have potentially more impact on New Rochelle than it does on Pelham," said Randy Archibold, president of New Rochelle's Glenwood Lake Association.

Archibold and neighbors Vicki Walcott-Edem and Alison Rivers led an effort this year to attempt to stifle the latest 185 Lincoln Ave. proposal. Several residents spoke against it at a village Planning Board meeting in July and again at a Nov. 28 Board of Trustees public hearing. A letter and attached petition submitted to the village in October received nearly 200 signatures, Walcott-Edem said.

Residents are most concerned about the potential of added traffic issues on an already-congested Lincoln Avenue, Archibold said.

Glenwood Lake residents asked different Pelham boards to consider using the property — a remediated former Getty gas station — as park land or greenspace instead.

"Simply put, the Glenwood Lake residents (non-Pelham residents) want the property to be used for a park as an alternative to the proposed 5 townhouses," village Mayor Michael Volpe said in an email. "The park request is unreasonable. As for traffic related concerns, the site lines and traffic flow have been adjusted to remediate where possible."

Volpe added in the email that a village-hired traffic consultant assured that "the addition of a few car trips per day" would not substantially increase traffic.

He said there have been conversations with New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson and Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas regarding safety issues along Lincoln Avenue, a county-owned road.

The proposed 5,000-square-foot building, which received Planning Board approval Oct. 3 at a special meeting, would include two ground-level parking spaces for each unit on the first floor and an additional five outdoor spaces.

Volpe said at the Nov. 28 meeting that a resolution would be drafted for consideration of site plan approval at the Dec. 12 Board of Trustees meeting. Archibold, the Glenwood Lake president, conceded that it will likely be approved.

"I don’t have much hope that there’s going to be any change in the vote," Archibold said. "It’s very frustrating that so many people can agree that Lincoln is this mess but no action seems to be taken."

He said he hopes local officials will still consider Lincoln Avenue's traffic issues in the future.

"Do a proper, comprehensive study of Lincoln and come up with solid recommendations and conclusions to see what can be done to make it safer instead of each city flying blind," Archibold said.